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Last night was Oxford City Council’s budget-setting meeting. It’s always a long-winded, grandstanding, pettily partisan affair (show me a Council budget debate which isn’t); this year’s was no exception.

As you may gather, I’m no fan of such occasions. But as I was co-presenting the Lib Dem administration’s budget, I had little choice but to endure the whole seven hours from start to finish.